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The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Ideas
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Library
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Ambition
People
Shapes
Furnished
Dreams
Designs
Design
Ambitions
Books
Grand
Dream
Helped

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